Know not to revere human things too much.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable.

To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

Time is the great art of man.